Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-09-10

DIR. HOuck reports q boy baby at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. KING and also
a son at Dock Bakers.
The highest market price paid for
eggs az the store Of H. S. Polling & Co.
Bring on your eggs. A cromo free to
every person bringing Us eggs. If.
Nipps & Klose. the meat market men,
are to the front in their line, and don't
forget it. They keep the best Of fresh
and cured meats and sell them at bed
rock prices. 26-tf
The ladies Of the 81. E. Church win
have a lunch counter on the fair
ground during the three last days of
the fair Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday.
John Gebhart knows what the public
wants in the grocery line, and you can
always End the right article there, and
he sells at bottom prices; don't forget
that
There have been several wagon loads
OF peaches sold in town within the past
ten days, all raised in this county.
They have brought about $500 per
bushel.
Howell Bros. sell coal for cash only
and all persons desiring coal will please
accompany their order with the money.
Respectfully,
44tf HOWELL Bros.
MIR. Benedict. who resides in this
county. twelve or more miles north
west Of town, viii, we learn, raise from
200 to 800 bushels of fine peaches this
fall in his peach orchard.
F. B. Cannon raised fine crops this
year. His oats averaged So bushels to
the acre. Mr.. Cannon will have for
market $50 bushels of onions. His
farm is five or six miles northeast of
town.
Several bids, we learn, have been
filed with Engineer Du Boise for the
erection of the Round House to be
erected by the q. X. & n. r. r. at this
place, but the contract has not yet
been let.
So long as tins notice appears in the
HERALD, we will receive wood on sub
scripuon, at The market price-to be
piled up and measured when delivered.
The wood to be cut into sticks not to
exceed 10 inches in length. IT,
The Baptist Society has purchased
lots upon which they will erect a
church next summer. The ground is
one block south of the south east cor
ner Of the square, now occupied by
Wm. McIlvaine.
w, A. Nicodemus. VINO is farming
about three miles south west of town
left some samples of MS corn at the
HERALD Office last Monday. His crop
viii average about - bushels to the
acre and IS sound good corn.
Z. Boriu, owner of the Oberlin Eye
and IIirwin Chief, has come down
from Ober!in to edit the Chief during
the campaign. Borin is a good news
paper man and we are glad 10 see him
at the helm Of the Chicragain.
Remember that you can get the Gel
ebrated Central Mills Flour, of Atchi-
son, at John Ge5hart's, the best flour
in Kansas. Price as low as other
make not so good. Try it. Satisfac-
ton guaranteed or money refunded. If.
Engineer DuBoise informs US that he
has up to this time received bids from
i've different parties for the erection of
the Railroad Round House at this place,
three from parties residing in this
county, one from Concordia and oae
from Beloit.
We now have a Board of Trade"
whose chief object will be to boom the
town, but citizens not members of the
said organization, must not depend on
the Board to do all the booming. Let
every individual take hold and help the
boom along.
1t seems that it Is necessary to make
proof now by publication in timber
culture cases the same as in homestead
cases. Such ruling has been made
public by Register Young of the Kir-
win Land Office through j. NJ. Sallee,
Clerk of the District Court of this
county.
The HERALD returns thanks 10 its
good friend VIM. j. Jefferson, whose
farm is about 3 miles west of town, for
basket full Of fine peaches raisen by
Mr.. Jefferson. He has 40 trees that are
four years old and he Will this year
gather from 20 to 80 bushels of nice
fruit from them.
The action of Captain Covington in
claiming Logan as his home, and that
he was in Phillipsburg only temporal
ly, has set the gossipers to wondering
if he intends to remove back to Logan
and issue his Democrat from there, or
if he intends to abandon his newspaper
enterprise, or to sell out and quit the
business.
The papers along the line of the c.
X. & N, have generally copied the
HERALD's statement that it was now
settled that the Machine Shops and
Division Station were TO be at Phil
lips burg, and our town is being gener-
ally advertised. We re-assure all our
exchanges that our former statement
in this matter may be relied on. The
HERALD knows what 1t is talking about
in regard TO that question.